Touch and go

Marcus Baram
7 min readJun 26, 2020

The absence of personal touch in the COVID era is devastating, causing psychological damage that will last for years—it also marks the loss of everything that makes us human.

Along with every single person on the planet, I’ve been completely upended in the last three months — my mood swinging between despair and fatalism and…

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Marcus Baram

Journalist, author of Gil Scott-Heron: Pieces of a Man, slave to the news cycle, skeptic